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Ruby Acosta and Daniel Sandoval talk outside a travel shop in Santa Ana, Calif. on Tuesday, March 8, 2011. Surging Latino and Asian populations accounted for virtually all of California’s population growth over the last decade, new census data showed on Tuesday. In the decade spanning 2000 and 2010, Latinos grew by 28 percent to 14 million in the nation’s most populous state, while Asians grew even faster, by 31 percent, to reach 4.8 million. In contrast, non-Hispanic whites decreased by 5 percent and the state’s African-American population dipped by 1 percent. Over the decade, California’s population grew only 10 percent to 37.3 million, ranking just 20th nationally and lagging behind other western states such as Nevada and Arizona. (AP Photo/Orange County Register, Jebb Harris)
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